but get the facts straight and be scrupulous about everything. I guess I expected more from a rare fish keeper/seller. Don't unload your culls as freebees!

There is no question that SIX bashed me. I think being called unscrupulous is more than kind of bad.
From my point of view, If like minded people who see this and think that one out 10 hurt little fish send overnight across the country is reason to come on line and call me unscrupulous, well, I guess I really don't want them to order from me.
Truly ,, I have found that if the customer is difficult, I lose money on the entire order. This kind of hassle takes way too much of my time and negative energy. SIX also complained about $15 extra shipping for the second bag and wrongly said the web site didn't say anything about the extra charge. I checked I lost $8 on shipping. I never companied.

Wow, well I should stop doing so much homework and surf the club forum more, I see! LOL.

I think the problem lies in expectation. I expected to link from aquabid to your site (googled the fish and found your site, hence I say linked) and have them correlate. Personally, I think it is unfair to "sell" rare fish on a site, let the seller enter credit info only to have it said that the fish bought are unavailable. I think anyone would agree that's annoying. I've bought other goods online and had them call and sell other products instead. I appreciate you calling me, and I also appreciate you telling me what "looked good". I'm sorry I didn't say that, but yes, the whole ordeal left a so-so taste in my mouth. I reserve the right to voice my opinion- and that's all it is anyway.

I don't understand why I should praise you for losing money on shipping for me. I asked to ship it USPS in a previous, unanswered email, before the transaction. Either way, www.usps.com and www.fedex.com both let you get rates for free. If you're losing money, that may be a better way for you to ship.

As far as the "extra $15", when I looked at your posts on aquabid, there was no extra charge stated. I ordered through the website due to the extra fish (the ones not in stock) that I wanted, which was oddly $49 instead of $42 as stated on aquabid. I was willing to may $7 more to get the rarer fish. Then there was $15 tacked on after we talked on the phone and I searched the aquabid and then your site and finally found the info. Sure I could have overlooked it on the site, but why don't both the site and aquabid correlate? I didn't complain at the time.

But, when I go through all that and get a deformed fish to boot, that was kinda the last straw for me. I don't mind feeding it off, I just don't know why it was offloaded on a customer. I stated as such.

I'm sorry this is such a long discussion, but the main issue is the disjunction and confusion between your site and your auctions. Maybe others don't have the problem, but this is a club of mine and I wanted to share that they better get their facts straight before ordering with you and I still stand by that.

The fish ARE doing well, the melonotaenia species are coloring up and I have a decent M/F ratio. I appreciate that, thank you.

Iím glad your fish are doing well, Thank you, Iím sorry if one of them didnít make it to you in perfect condition. I also apologize for calling you a ridiculous person.
But to suggest that I knowing sent you a deformed fish when you donít know that and then sum it up as you did, is a bit outrageous. , I take that comment seriously. So that you know that NO fish was ďunloaded on you.Ē I can tell you for sure that fish get banged up when shipped. Fish do become injured when the box gets slammed several times and when that FedEx employee shakes that funny feeling box as he/she walks up to the door. That is why I always try to send extras.
Also when I quote you a FedEx charge, Iím just estimating. I never know what FedEx will charge. Each shipment is different and FedEx charges me whatever they feel like at that time. Iím sure we all know what is happening to FedEx rates.
I wish I had 100s all the rainbows you see on Thatfishshop.com but lists change day to day. They are not made of plastick like most other products.
I promise you, I donít do this for the money.
I shipped you really hard to get rainbows. You agree that they are great. Iím sure there are other here who have ordered from me as well.
I bet it would be safe to say that a lot of rainbows that are traded among your member here in your club, came originally from me. I donít pretend to be perfect and own up to my mistakes. I did feel that your comments went over the top , untrue and unfair.

IMO lacking the time to do that, or the effort, makes me think you shipped that "damaged" fish either unwittingly (the scoop and dump) or on purpose. There's no way a fish that small can break its back in overnight shipping unless the box was damaged, which it wasn't. It's pretty easy to tell an animal with a broken back. In a fish, there's a damage point and a complete lack of use of the posterior part of the body.

I don't want to receive any more PMs from anyone involved in this thread in any fashion asking me to reopen this for discussion. You've already demonstrated quite clearly that you cannot hold a civil discussion over this matter. Please resolve any further grievances in private.